filed in Tanzania on Aug.01, 2011
Mambo from the July Summer Team in amazing Tanzania! Sorry it’s taken us so long to update you all on how we’re getting on but we’ve been kept very busy. So here’s what has happened on our African Adventure weeks 1-4… We arrived in Dar es Salaam and our base in Mbezi Luis on the [...]
filed in Africa, Gap Year, Tanzania on Jan.27, 2011
Hi Guy, We are all doing well and we are now at Lake Manyara doing plastering at the orphanage. We had an Eco-lodge phase yesterday and we are getting ready for the whole day game drive tomorrow. On thursday, the whole group will be heading out to Serengeti and later to the Ngorongoiro Crater before [...]
filed in Africa, Announcements, Gap Year, Tanzania on Oct.27, 2010
Hi Guy, The group are doing really well and are all in Zanzibar at the moment, i believe they will be back with us on Thursday. Over the past weeks they have been working at the Neema Children’s Centre and will be working at Don Bosco Centre starting this week. Verena will be coming home [...]
filed in Tanzania on Oct.11, 2010
Hi Everyone, I don’t even know where to begin with this week’s blog. So much has happened that I just don’t have the words and time to describe what an amazing time I have had… For the week we left Arusha behind us and traveled Lake Manyara national park. There we spent 3 nights in [...]
filed in Africa, Announcements, Fundraising, Gap Year, Tanzania, The Leap's chosen charity on Sep.30, 2010
Hello everyone! Brilliant news!!!!!! The kids at Good Hope now have their 16 new beds, matresses, pillows, sheets and moquito nets, as well as supplies of food! Now they can sleep comfortably in their new beds, have balnkets to keep them warm in the winter months and will be less likely to contract Malaria. Malaria [...]
filed in Africa, Destinations, Fundraising, Gap Year, Tanzania on Sep.30, 2010
For anyone who doesn’t already know or hasn’t been lucky enough to go to Tanzania with The Leap, CCF stands for Children For Children’s Future and its an orphanage for street children based in Arusha (the safari mecca of Tanzania)! Our lovely leap volunteers have been doing lots of work at the orphanage over the [...]
filed in Africa, Announcements, Fundraising, Gap Year, Tanzania, The Leap's chosen charity on Sep.27, 2010
Hello everyone!! So It’s been quite a while since I have written a blog on here (sorry if you have missed me)!! Getting the sponsor money all collected in was a hell of a task, but I can very happily and proudly say….It’s all in!!!!! Yayyyy. We managed to raise enough for 16 beds, 16 [...]
filed in Tanzania on Sep.27, 2010
Jambo, I am sorry I left last week’s blog in such a hurry but the man in the internet cafe gave me 1 minute to finish writing before blocking my computer! We spent this week at CCF (Children for Children’s Future) orphanage about an hours drive from where we live. The orphanage is home to [...]
filed in Tanzania on Sep.25, 2010
Hey everyone! Not that much to report for the last week… We had such a nice weekend relaxing by the pool last Saturday in the sun topping up that tan but on Sunday we decided that we wanted to get some action by going on a camel safari. We were told by out driver Jimmy [...]
filed in Tanzania on Sep.20, 2010
So it is the weekend in Tanzania once again and we have finished our first placement at Camp Joshua where we had to dig the foundations for a wall. The ground was so hard, doing this in the hot African sun was tough work, most likely the hardest thing I have had to do but [...]
